THE first casualty in war is always the truth and much of it, as George Davies (Letters, April 26) has shown, can be twisted and used to make the peoples of the NATO countries support what is being done in their name - bombing Serbia.

This is illegal and completely barbaric. They should have been using the millions it is costing to help the refugees, not killing more innocent people and adding to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

NATO is thrashing about like a headless chicken, and is threatening to place an embargo on ships carrying oil to Serbia - another illegal move, as the French have stated.

During the last world war, the Serbs, who were on our side, were massacred by Croatians who were on the side of the Axis powers and allowed the Germans to occupy their country. It was reported that the rivers were choked with Serbian bodies.

The leader of those who did it was given sanctuary after the war in the Vatican so that he could not be tried as a war criminal. Who were the demons then?

Interestingly, it was only a few weeks ago that Radio 4's Today programme revealed that the news item during the Gulf war about the Iraqis removing respirators from babies in a Kuwait hospital was a propaganda lie put out by the Allies.

The American government has maintained an illegal blockade against Cuba which has three times been condemned by the UN. Can we therefore expect NATO to bomb the hell out of the USA?

ALBERT MORRIS, Clement View, Nelson.

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